intractable asthma is a challenging clinical problem. this study was conducted to determine whether a subset of patients with intractable asthma may be misdiagnosed and have a form of bronchiolitis instead and also to determine the effectiveness of macrolide therapy in these patients. seventy six patients with intractable asthma were re-treated with recommended maximal doses of oral prednisolon...

In this paper, we develop a class of nonlinear compact schemes based on our previous linear central compact schemes with spectral-like resolution [X. Liu, S. Zhang, H. Zhang and C-W. Shu, A new class of central compact schemes with spectral-like resolution I: Linear schemes, Journal of Computational Physics 248 (2013) 235-256]. In our approach, we compute the flux derivatives on the cell-nodes ...

We wish to approximately maximize f , a nonnegative submodular function on 2 . We consider the space [0, 1] , where a set S corresponds to the indicator point xS (with 1s at the coordinates of elements in S and 0s elsewhere). We can think of a point x ∈ [0, 1] as representing a distribution on 2 , and let R(x) denote a random set obtained by including each i independently with probability xi. T...

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We introduce a new rounding technique designed for online optimization problems, which is related to contention resolution schemes, a technique initially introduced in the context of submodular function maximization. Our rounding technique, which we call online contention resolution schemes (OCRSs), is applicable to many online selection problems, including Bayesian online selection, oblivious ...